Criminal

Criminal (2016)

Timing: 1:53 (113 min)

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Release date

2016-04-07

Country

Bulgaria, France, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Lionsgate, Millennium Media, BenderSpink, Summit Entertainment, Davis Films, Fipex Holding, Campbell Grobman Films, Criminal Productions

Genre

Action, Crime, Science Fiction

Budget

$31 500 000

Revenue

$24 337

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Director

Ariel Vromen

Actors

Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Gal Gadot, Alice Eve, Michael Pitt, Jordi Mollà, Antje Traue, Scott Adkins
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Scenario

David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook

Producer

Chris Bender, Boaz Davidson, Avi Lerner, J.C. Spink, John Thompson, Trevor Short, Lati Grobman, Mark Gill, Christa Campbell, Matthew O'Toole

Operator

Dana Gonzales

Composer

Brian Tyler

Artist

Audition

Elaine Grainger

Editing

Danny Rafic
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• Nicolas Cage turned down the lead role.
• Filming had to be postponed for a week because Tommy Lee Jones broke his ribs.
• The underwater scenes in the huge cistern were directed by Kevin Costner himself, the lead actor, who had directing experience, in cases where Ariel Vromen was unable to do so due to being busy with other projects.
• A life-size dummy of Ryan Reynolds was used in the operating room scene, not Reynolds himself. Filming Reynolds (and the scene took two days to shoot) would have been significantly more expensive, and he himself would not have been thrilled with having to spend a long time in an operating chair resembling a dentist's chair.
• The nickname for Michael Pitt's character is "The Dutchman." He was given this nickname because the first scenes of the film were originally planned to be shot in Amsterdam, Netherlands, but due to the high cost of filming there, the scene was moved to London, and the nickname remained unchanged.
• A significant portion of the filming was done with a drone to minimize the impact on the already complex traffic situation in central London.
• There was no car chase or moving bridge sequence in the original script (there was only a scene with a stationary bridge). This idea was proposed by director Ariel Vromen, who saw a moving bridge while waiting a long time at a London airport.
• The 'clean' room where Tommy Lee Jones' character operates on Kevin Costner's character is a modular structure developed by the London company “Connect 2 Cleanrooms”, which underwent some minor modifications for its use in filmmaking.
• According to the film’s set designer, John Henson, the most challenging part was constructing the secret operating room where Kevin Costner’s character had the memories of Ryan Reynolds’ character implanted. All the operating room equipment had to be custom-fitted to Costner. A three-dimensional scan of the actor's head was made, and a three-dimensional plastic replica of the head was created, which was used to precisely adjust the equipment.